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funds for the business; on tbe contrary, it is 
highly probable that it would answer. 
There is great reason also to suppose, that 
a manufactory for making the sugar from the 
beginning, as well as for refining it, might be 
established with advantage. 
Several acres together are often met with 
in Canada, entirely covered with maple trees 
alone; but the trees are most usually found 
growing mixed with others, in the proportion 
of from thirty to fifty maple trees to every 
acre. Thousands and thousands of acres might 
be procured, within a very short distance of 
the River St. Lawrence, for less than one 
shilling an acre, on each of which thirty maple 
trees would be found; but supposing that 
Only twenty-five trees were found on each acre^ 
then on a track of five thousand acres, sup¬ 
posing each tree to produce five pounds of 
sugar, 5,580 cwt. 2 qrs. 121b. of sugar might 
be made annually. 
The maple tree attains a growth sufficient 
for yielding five pounds of sugar annually in 
the space of twenty years; as the oaks and 
other kinds of trees, therefore, were cut away 
for different purposes, maples might he planted 
in their room, which would be ready to be 
tapped by the time that the old maple trees 
failed. Moreover, if these trees vvere planted 
out in rows regularly, the trouble of collect- 
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